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Editor’s note: Cuenca’s Easter soup, fanesca, is considered by many to be the best in Latin America and it is a tradition among Cuencanos to have at least one bowl […]

According to two university studies, foreign tourists visiting Cuenca are younger and more European than they were ten years ago. One of the studies found that newer expats also reflect […]

Latin Americans are the most emotional people on the planet while the world’s least emotional people hail from countries in Eastern Europe, a new survey shows. Bolivia and El Salvador […]

The growing global demand for quinoa by health food enthusiasts isn’t just raising prices for the Andean “super grain” and living standards among Bolivian farmers. Quinoa fever is running up […]

By Jason Koebler Diego Mosquera has a lot of neighbors: Jaguars, rare dogs, anteaters, ocelots, thousands of species of birds and an estimated 100,000 different species of insects. Mosquera manages […]

There are too many pigeons in Cuenca — more than a million, according to one ornithologist — and their overpopulation is creating public health concerns, city health officials say. Property […]

By Lex Cunningham Ecuador has lost 30 percent of its snowcaps in the last three decades and if global warming continues at this rate, in 70 years its glaciers will […]

By Jim Wyss For more than 80 years, Quito has been guarded by a strange array of kitschy castles — brimming with turrets and towers, spires and faux drawbridges, Moorish […]

Cuenca not only has the best drinking water in Ecuador, it also has the cleanest rivers. A report on water quality by government biologists and hydrologists, credits the the sewage […]

By Nicole Akoukou Thompson The Dominican Republic has a saying, “We’re black behind the ears.” And in Mexico, “there’s a black grandma in the closet.” Both statements refer to a […]

By Janet Novack There’s good news and bad news for baby boomers. The good news is that despite concerns about meager retirement savings, baby boomers aren’t going to have to […]

By Diana Iglesias More than two-thirds of Bolivian women have suffered domestic violence, according to a report out Thursday that found such abuse widespread in Latin America, with partners usually […]

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The Cuenca Dispatch

Week of July 05

Cuenca City Hall shake-up redraws mayoral race.

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By law, renting in Ecuador does not require a deposit and leases can be verbal.

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Ecuador prepares for heavy farm losses as El Niño threat builds.

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